Buckle your seat belts. The engines are already cranking up on the spring and summer concert season. The amphitheater in Virginia Beach, the region's largest concert venue, today announced a pair of big shows: the Beach Boys and Dave Matthews Band.

Fresh off their appearance at The Grammy awards on Sunday, a reunited version of The Beach Boys are heading out on a 50th anniversary tour. The band, which will feature Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine along with Bruce Johnston and David Marks, will play the amphitheater, officially called Farm Bureau Live in Virginia Beach, on Tuesday, July 3.

Tickets, which go on sale 10 a.m. Friday Feb. 24, are priced $30 to $125. You'll be able to purchase them through the amphitheater's website.

Elsewhere, Virginia's own Dave Matthews Band is returning to the summer concert circuit after taking 2011 off. The band will kick off its tour May 18 in Woodlands, Texas, and continue hitting major concert stages until it arrives back in the Old Dominion for shows Saturday, June 16 in Bristow and Sunday, June 17 (Father's Day) at Farm Bureau Live. The tour will cruise on and wrap up Sept. 9 in Mountain View, Calif.

Here's what the press release about the show had to say about when tickets will be on sale:

An online presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association will begin this Thursday, February 16, at 10:00 AM ET at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com. Citi is the official credit card of the Dave Matthews Band 2012 Summer Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Monday, March 5, at 10:00 AM ET through Citi’s Private Pass Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 9. Please visit www.davematthewsband.com/#/tour for further information.

February 15, 2012 — Virginia Beach, VA — The Beach Boys, one of the world’s most legendary and influential bands, have reunited for a global 50th Anniversary Tour. Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks will tour together for the first time in more than two decades. The 40+ city tour, which will begin in April, will feature a headlining date at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on April 27th and a performance at The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 10th. A second show at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT has already been added for May 13 due to overwhelming demand. The previously announced May 12 performance at the Mohegan Sun Arena sold out in one day.

The band, who performed together at the 2012 GRAMMY Awards, will also release a new studio album and commemorative 50th Anniversary catalog with Capitol/EMI.

On Tuesday, July 3rd at 8:00PM the Beach Boys will take the stage at Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach. Fireworks will immediately follow the show and will be provided by Dominion Fireworks.

Tickets are $125.00, $95.00, $75.00, $65.00, $55.00, $45.00, $30.00 and there will be a limited number of lawn tickets available for $15.00 for the first week of the on sale and after that they will be $20.00. Tickets will go on sale Friday, February 24th at 10am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster's national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets will also be available at the Hardee’s Thickburger box office at Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach. Up to the minute tour date and ticketing information can be found at thebeachboys.com.

The Beach Boys have recorded new songs for the as-yet-untitled album to be released in 2012. It will be the first to feature all of the band’s surviving original members in decades and is being produced by Brian Wilson and executive produced by Mike Love.

The Beach Boys and Capitol/EMI have also teamed up for a 50th Anniversary campaign spotlighting the band’s entire catalog, with several new commemorative releases planned for 2012, including a new hits collection and a career-spanning box set.

For five decades, America’s first pop band to reach the 50 year milestone has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits with 36. Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys is fast approaching triple-Platinum sales status, and The SMiLE Sessions, released to worldwide critical acclaim in November, has been heralded as 2011’s #1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, The Beach Boys are an American institution that is iconic around the world.

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DAVE MATTHEWS BAND ANNOUNCES FIRSTNORTH AMERICAN SUMMER TOUR SINCE 2010 Online Presale For Warehouse Fan Association Will Begin Thursday, February 16 Dave Matthews Band Reunites With Producer Steve LillywhiteFor New Album Coming This Summer

Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach

Sunday, June 17th

Dave Matthews Band returns to the road this summer with an extensive North American summer tour launching on May 18 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX. The group – which ranked as the biggest ticket seller worldwide of the past decade – took last year off from touring, so this will be its first outing since 2010.

The tour will feature numerous two-night stands, including visits at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY (June 8 & 9) and the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, FL (July 20 & 21). The group will begin a West Coast run over Labor Day weekend with three nights (August 31, September 1 & 2) at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA, where Dave Matthews Band has headlined 40 shows since 1997. See below for itinerary.

An online presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association will begin this Thursday, February 16, at 10:00 AM ET at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com. Citi is the official credit card of the Dave Matthews Band 2012 Summer Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Monday, March 5, at 10:00 AM ET through Citi’s Private Pass Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 9. Please visit www.davematthewsband.com/#/tour for further information.

Dave Matthews Band recently went into the studio with Steve Lillywhite – who produced the band's first three studio albums, Under The Table And Dreaming, Crash and Before These Crowded Streets – to begin work on its forthcoming album, which will be released this year. Details on how to order the album will be announced soon. It will be the follow-up to the Platinum-certified Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King(RCA), which debuted atNo. 1 on The Billboard 200 in 2009, making Dave Matthews Band one of only two groups in chart history to have five consecutive studio albums enter atop the chart. Dave Matthews Band – comprising Carter Beauford (drums), Stefan Lessard (bass), Dave Matthews (vocals, guitar) and Boyd Tinsley (violin) – has sold over 17 million tickets since its inception and a collective 37 million CDs and DVDs combined.